The relationship between mental health disorders and substance use and integrated approaches.
Mental Health
The impulsive lifestyle counseling program for antisocial behaviour in outpatient substance abuse treatment.
Abstract Patients with antisocial personality disorder in outpatient treatment for substance use disorders are at high risk of drop-out. Using a randomized design, this study tested the impact of adding a brief psycho-educational program...
Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder.
Abstract Background: Antisocial personality disorder (AsPD) is associated with poor mental health, criminality, substance use and relationship difficulties. This review updates Gibbon 2010 (previous version of the review). Objectives: To...
Psycho-education for substance use and antisocial personality disorder: a randomized trial.
Abstract Background Antisocial personality disorder often co-exists with drug and alcohol use disorders. Methods This trial examined the effectiveness of offering psycho-education for antisocial personality disorder in community substance...
Impulsive Lifestyle Counselling versus treatment as usual to reduce offending in people with co-occurring antisocial personality disorder and substance use disorder: a post hoc analysis.
Abstract Objectives: To assess the impact of a short psychoeducation intervention for antisocial personality disorder on offending after randomization to treatment. Design: Multicentre, superiority, non-blinded randomized controlled trial...
The outcome of integrated motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral therapy in Egyptian patients with substance use disorder.
Abstract Objectives The authors aimed to evaluate the outcome of combined motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioural therapy (MICBT) for substance use disorder compared to the twelve-step facilitation (TSF) therapy in terms of...
A systematic review of motivational interviewing to address substance use with justice-involved adults.
Background: Motivational Interviewing (MI) is widely used in substance abuse treatment, possibly due to the short sessions and the treatment’s cost-effectiveness. Previous research has established the efficacy of MI among a broad range of...
Motivational interviewing: Helping people change
A must-read for anyone interested in facilitating change with individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions. Miller and Rollnick explain how to work through ambivalence to facilitate change. They present detailed guidelines for using...
Assessing the delivery of the thinking for a change program in modified formats: An experimental approach.
Abstract This paper evaluates whether participation in the Thinking for a Change cognitive behavioural program produces improvement in social problem solving skills in a prison context. Data are derived from a randomised experiment, with a...
A quasi-experimental evaluation of Thinking for a Change: A “real-world” application.
Abstract Due to the popularity of cognitive behavioural interventions, programs that follow this model are often assumed to be effective. Yet evaluations of specific programs have been slow in coming. The current investigation seeks to...
Thinking for a change 4.0.
About the program: Thinking for a Change 4.0 (T4C) is an innovative cognitive behavioral change program crafted by experts Jack Bush, Ph.D., Barry Glick, Ph.D., and Juliana Taymans, Ph.D., in partnership with the National Institute of...